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In the latest episode of the Ex-Worker, we continue our discussion of the unfolding social revolution in the autonomous Kurdish territories of Rojava. Building on our coverage in Episode 36, we share two interviews themed around international solidarity with the struggle for autonomy and the fight against ISIS. In the first, a member of Rojava Solidarity NYC, the group of American anarchists that produced the book "A Small Key Can Open a Large Door", discusses democratic confederalism and the council system in the cantons, compares and contrasts the Zapatista uprising with the Rojava revolution, and describes the solidarity projects they've undertaken and what's at stake for anarchists in our response to the events in Kurdistan. In the second, a member of the Turkish anarchist group Social Insurrection discusses his experience fighting with the United Freedom Forces militia. We address some critiques of the revolutionary structures in Rojava as well as our coverage of them and trace the emergence of international solidarity brigades. A member of Antifa International announces the formation of an International Anti-fascist Defense Fund, and we share info about several recently released anarchist publications. Our discussion of the news takes on Obama's sudden transformation into a prison reform advocate, indigenous resistance to profiteering off alcoholism, and the outing of a corporate infiltrator into the animal rights movement, while our indignant coverage of Syriza's entirely predictable betrayal of Greek social movements in their EU bailout austerity proposal concludes with a helpful diagnosis of "The Five Stages of Leftism". {July 27, 2015}

Get ready for a shocker: the Greek leftist party Syriza, swept into power on an anti-austerity platform, has betrayed everything they supposedly stood for and collaborated with the EU to impose brutal austerity conditions on the Greek population. Not to say we told you so, but… if you haven’t seen it, check out the CrimethInc. feature “Syriza Can’t Save Greece”, published in January with, we have to admit, considerable foresight. Say it with me, folks: there are no state solutions to the capitalist crisis.

Former Earth Liberation Front press secretary Leslie Pickering has set up a multimedia art installation at the ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery in Buffalo through July 25th titled “A Radical Time Capsule,” featuring artifacts seized from him by the FBI in two raids in 200 and 2001, as well as photos, documents, and more.

As we mentioned in Episode 38, animal rights activist Amber Canavan is in jail this month for exposing brutal conditions and liberating two ducks from a foie gras facility in upstate New York. If you’re reading this before the end of July, drop her a note to thank her for her courage to this address:

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